San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-19
EDITORIAL BREVITiES.

NEARLY every city in Texas, save San
Antonio, seems To think tnat the seCuT-
ing Of the orphan a-vlum Is worth MAX
Ing an effort for.
TENNESSEE has ten days more OF agony
and prohibition preparation before the
decisive day arrives. lhc campaign
has been very laTgeIya still hunt, SO far.
now COmcs'the tug of WAT and there will
be music in the air till tie end.
One by one the loses fall and one by
one the supporters Of the present in
competent democratic management
stand from under and leave the sacred
precincts Of the national cantai for the
humble haunts OF home.
THE California fever Of ~ WAS mild
attack compared to the present CalifOr-
mia craze. The result will be the same
a few will remain and huild up a Sec
tiOn TO their own profit; the majority
Will return busted. and contribute to
some one else's profit.
THE Galveston News in representing
James @. Blaine as trOttjng alongside OF
the Prince OF Wales bicycle does SO for
the purpose of making Mr.. Blaine ap-
pear ridiculous but only succeeds in
showing to what extent editorial ears
may grow on Island city heads.
CRANFIL is a host at home. His valOr
in the bosom OF his own domestic circle
Is something phenomenal He sits In
the secret re"esses Of his sanctum and
swears that the 8nti-prUhibitiOn MAORI
ty OF $4,000 in Texas has DESTROYED both
the republican and democratic parties
This beats mustard seed faith all hOl-
low
HAVING demonstrated the value of
civil service reform in removing repub-
liCan office holders for perniciOus pOliti-
cal activity, it is greatly to be desired
that one dose OF the same medicine
Should be dealt ut 10 democratic sub
jeCt. Perhaps, however, as these latter
are so numerous there is not medicine
enough to go around.
The southern Journals can stomach
the mugwumpery Of the New York
Times very easily, but when ii ZONES to
swallowing its occasional criticisms on
southern social matters, the whole land
breathes out threatening and slaughter.
There is no real ground Of communion
between the New York Times and a
southern bourbon and the attempt to adj
just relations will necessarily prove frlc-
tiOnal.
IT would be an interesting chapter In
New \ Ork politics 70 trace the peculiar
paths Of responsiveness through which
Whitney must have led Pulitzer in
order to induce him to support an adj
ministratIOR for which ne has expressed
during series of years only the most
unmltigated contempt. The World
revOlVes around ClevelaOd once more.
but in doing so it reverses its notion,
IL the reception to Judge Clark at
Waco on last Thursday, the chairman
Of the anti-prOhibitiOn committee ex-
pressed himself very decidedly as to the
duty of the next democratic convention,
His remarks very plainly indicate that
the plank prOhibitiVe Of prohibition
tinkering will be put into the democrat
iC platform, or it will be put out. The
Judge recognizes that the day OF neu-
trality ia past.
SOME of the Farmers alliances OF the
state have been kicking over that two
dollar assessment ordered by the State
alliance, as an arbitrary measure. The
measure cannot justly, be called arbi-
tTary because il only orders the vote In
the local alliance, leaving 1t optional
with the alliance to vote in favor of the
assessment or otherwise. There is but
little doubt, however, but that the mem
bers of the local alliances. almost with
out exception, will respond to the call
for one dollar In October and another in
December, as the funds asked for are to
establish a cotton exchange which will
result in real benefit to every cotton
grower 10 north and central Texas.